Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide: The essential handbook to cloud transformation with Azure, 4th Edition

✍ Scribed by Jack Lee, Greg Leonardo, Jason Milgram, Dave Rendón

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leverage Azure's cloud capabilities to find the most optimized path to meet your firm's cloud infrastructure needs

Key Features

• Get to grips with the core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
• Develop the ability to opt for cloud design and architecture that best fits your organization
• Cover the entire spectrum of cloud migration from planning to implementation and best practices

Book Description

Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a multitude of services and capabilities for organizations of any size moving to a cloud strategy.

This fourth edition comes with the latest updates on cloud security fundamentals, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Windows Virtual Desktop. It encapsulates the entire spectrum of measures involved in Azure deployment that includes understanding Azure fundamentals, choosing a suitable cloud architecture, building on design principles, becoming familiar with Azure DevOps, and learning best practices for optimization and management.

The book begins by introducing you to the Azure cloud platform and demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azure's capabilities. The guide also acquaints you with practical insights into application modernization, Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployment, infrastructure management, key application architectures, best practices of Azure DevOps, and Azure automation.

By the end of this book, you will have acquired the skills required to drive Azure operations from the planning and cloud migration stage to cost management and troubleshooting.

What you will learn

• Understand core Azure infrastructure technologies and solutions
• Carry out detailed planning for migrating applications to the cloud with Azure
• Deploy and run Azure infrastructure services
• Define roles and responsibilities in DevOps
• Get a firm grip on Azure security fundamentals
• Carry out cost optimization in Azure

Who this book is for

This book is designed to benefit Azure architects, cloud solution architects, Azure developers, Azure administrators, and anyone who wants to develop expertise in operating and administering the Azure cloud. Basic familiarity with operating systems and databases will help you grasp the concepts covered in this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Automation and governance in Azure
3. Modernizing with hybrid cloud and multicloud
4. Cloud migration: Planning, implementation, and best practices
5. Enabling secure, remote work with Microsoft Azure AD and WVD
6. Security fundamentals to help protect against cybercrime
7. Offers, support, resources, and tips to optimize cost in Azure
8. Conclusion

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
What is Microsoft Azure?
Approaches for Azure adoption
Public cloud
Private cloud
Hybrid cloud
Multicloud
Edge computing
Azure migration strategies
Re-hosting
Re-platforming
Refactoring
Business benefits of Azure infrastructure
Helpful links
Chapter 2: Automation and governance in Azure
Azure DevOps
ARM templates
Deploying Azure IaC
Benefits of Azure IaC
Best practices
Parameters
Variables
Resources
Identity and access control
What are the security benefits of Azure?
Best practices
Azure governance
What are the benefits?
Summary
Important links
Chapter 3: Modernizing with hybrid cloud and multicloud
What is hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge computing?
What makes a hybrid and multicloud strategy successful?
Azure Arc overview
Kubernetes app management at scale
Azure Arc enabled servers
Azure Arc enabled data services
Prerequisites for Azure data services
Connectivity modes
Connectivity requirements
Azure Arc data controller creation
Azure Arc in GitHub
Modernizing your datacenter with Azure Stack
Azure Stack Hub overview
Use cases for Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stack Hub architecture
Azure Stack Hub identity provider
How is Azure Stack Hub managed?
Resource providers
Azure Stack Hub administration basics
Getting support
Azure Stack Development Kit
Azure Stack Hub update management
Azure Stack HCI solution overview
Azure Stack HCI use cases
Azure integration benefits
Azure Stack HCI prerequisites
Hardware partners
Software partners
Licensing, billing, and pricing
Management tools
Getting started with Azure Stack HCI and Windows Admin Center
Installing Windows Admin Center
Adding and connecting to an Azure Stack HCI cluster
Comparing Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack HCI
Summary
Chapter 4: Cloud migration: Planning, implementation, and best practices
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Choosing your underlying infrastructure
Compute
Networking
Storage
Workload migration scenarios
Windows Server and Linux workloads
SQL Server
Containers
VMware workloads
SAP workloads
High-performance computing
Achieving cloud scale and maximizing performance
Azure autoscaling
Compute and storage performance considerations
Enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery
Azure Backup
Azure Site Recovery
Azure migration best practices and support
The official Azure documentation
Azure Migrate
Azure Migration Program
Azure Architecture Center
Azure App Service
Azure SQL Database
Free training with Microsoft Learn
Contact an Azure sales specialist
Summary
Chapter 5: Enabling secure, remote work with Microsoft Azure AD and WVD
The fundamentals of deploying remote work infrastructure
Azure Active Directory
Plan your environment
Configuring Azure AD and hybrid environments
Secure your identity infrastructure
Enabling remote connectivity
Azure Virtual WAN
Azure VPN
Securing and managing traffic to your workloads
Application Gateway with WAF
Azure Firewall
Azure Load Balancer and cross-region load balancing
Azure Bastion and Just-in-Time (JIT) access
Enabling remote work with Windows Virtual Desktop
Network guidelines
Managing user profiles with Azure Files and NetApp Files
Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop partner integrations
Summary
Chapter 6: Security fundamentals to help protect against cybercrime
Enabling security for remote workers
Security operations excellence
Cyber Defense Operations Center
Protect
Detect
Respond
Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
Gain visibility into your entire infrastructure with Azure Security Center
Security posture management and multicloud
Azure Security Center architecture
Azure Security Benchmark
Achieve advanced threat protection for your hybrid and multicloud environments with Azure Defender
Azure Defender dashboard
Best practices for securing your network
Modernize your security operations with Azure Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM
A unified SecOps experience
Summary
Chapter 7: Offers, support, resources, and tips to optimize cost in Azure
Understanding and forecasting your costs
Cloud economics
Cost management tools
Choosing the right pricing model
Optimizing your costs
Azure Advisor
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Azure reservations
Spot Virtual Machines
DevTest pricing
Optimization checklist
Summary
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Resources
Glossary
Index